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It appears that Bourne Identity director Doug Liman has settled on his next project. Paramount has finally greenlit the long-in-the-works sci-fi flick Luna as Liman's follow up to last year's Fair Game. The director has been trying to get Luna off the ground for awhile, most recently with Jake Gyllenhaal in 2007. While that iteration never took off, Liman started meeting with a number of actors for the film in March. Now, Variety reports that Paramount is putting the finishing touches on a deal that will fast-track the project.
The story centers on a group of renegade scientists who build a spaceship from scratch using spare parts in order to steal an energy source located on the moon, cause apparently that's where we keep valuable things in the future. It's like our lock box. Liman and John Hamburg (I Love You Man) co-wrote the script, which has gone through several rewrites. In addition to the previously mentioned Andrew Garfield, Liman has also met with Bradley Cooper and Chris Evans to talk about roles in the film. No offers have been made yet, but expect casting news shortly as the project moves towards production.


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Mohegan Sun's Palmer, Mass., landlord alleging breach of agreement
Owners of the Palmer, Mass., land where Mohegan Sun once hoped to develop a $1 billion resort casino expect to file a lawsuit today alleging Mohegan Sun shifted its attention to the more lucrative Greater Boston market prior to a Nov. 5 referendum in Palmer, breaching an "exclusivity agreement."
Voters in Palmer, in western Massachusetts, rejected the Mohegan Sun proposal by a mere 93 votes with more than 5,000 votes cast.
Northeast Realty Associates, in the suit to be filed in Hampden Superior Court in Springfield, claims Mohegan Sun broke an agreement that prohibited it from operating or pursuing a license to operate a gaming facility anywhere in Massachusetts other than on the Palmer site, a 152-acre tract off Exit 8 of the Massachusetts Turnpike.
The suit comes just days before a referendum Tuesday in the Greater Boston city of Revere, where Mohegan Sun is now proposing a $1.3 billion casino project on land owned by the Suffolk Downs thoroughbred track.
In a statement Thursday night, Mohegan Sun addressed the suit's allegation that Mohegan Sun officials began talks with Suffolk Downs prior to the Palmer referendum.
"Mohegan Sun devoted over five years and more than $25 million to create a world-class resort casino proposal in Palmer," the statement said. "But on Nov. 5, 2013 the community made a decision, which we have respected. While we do not comment on pending litigation, it has been well established that there were no discussions between Mohegan Sun and the City of Revere or Suffolk Downs prior to the defeat of our proposal in Palmer's Nov. 5 referendum. Any suggestion to the contrary is completely without merit."
Earlier in the day, Mohegan Sun announced it has retained a retail estate advisory firm, CBRE/Grossman Retail Advisors LLC, to study development options for the Palmer property, on which Mohegan Sun maintains a long-term lease.
A Northeast Realty spokesman said the firm would not comment on the suit.
In addition to Mohegan Sun entities, the legal action names as a defendant Michael Vito & Associates Inc., a Florence, Mass., consulting firm hired to direct Mohegan Sun's referendum campaign in Palmer.
The suit alleges that Mohegan Sun's interest in the Greater Boston casino license can be traced to September and October, when it became known that Caesars Entertainment, a partner in Suffolk Downs' original casino project, was having difficulty winning a "suitability" determination from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission.
Caesars withdrew from the project in October, and talks between Mohegan Sun and Suffolk Downs began "no later than the early part of October," the suit claims.
"The plaintiff believes that Mohegan would have considered Suffolk Downs to be a more financially advantageous site for casino development than the Palmer property because Suffolk Downs is located in the more lucrative Greater Boston market," the suit says. "At this point, a decision by Mohegan not to exercise its best efforts to secure a license to operate a casino on the Palmer property still would realize for Mohegan the substantial benefit of tying up the Palmer property for a long enough time to prevent a competitor from building a destination resort casino on that site that could expose Mohegan's flagship casino in Connecticut to significant competition."
The suit notes that under Massachusetts' 2011 expanded-gambling law, a casino-license applicant that loses a referendum can seek a second referendum in the same municipality as soon as 180 days later.
Northeast disputes Mohegan Sun's assertion that it effectively terminated the exclusivity agreement in a letter emailed to Northeast officials Nov. 20, six days before a recount of the referendum vote. Northeast contends that Mohegan Sun cannot terminate the exclusivity agreement without also terminating its lease of the property.
Mohegan Sun publicly announced that it had reached an agreement with Suffolk Downs on Nov. 27.
Northeast's suit seeks unspecified damages and an order that Mohegan Sun may not pursue a license for, or operate, a Massachusetts gaming facility on land other than the Palmer property.
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Slow boarding: But Amtrak runs two days in a row
Dozens of folks were wheeling luggage along snowy Main Street Monday morning and then falling or climbing down the large staircase to the Amtrak station, so a reporter went by to see what was up. The train inaugurated on October 1, the Northeast Regional, had been canceled the previous day due to some sort of problem confronting its origination, Lynchburg, said a person familiar with the situation, so there were travelers particularly eager to get moving.
"I'm a regular," said Russ Perry, who strolled up to the counter just 10 minutes before the 8:49am departure time to buy a ticket. He prefers Train #20, the Crescent, which heads north an hour and a half earlier, to commute to his job running a 200-person architecture and engineering firm in Washington; but the Crescent was all booked up.
Across the crowded waiting room, Christy Strick was glad the train was on time, as she'd just spent two nights in a hotel when she couldn't get back home to Crozet, and she didn't want to do that again. She was eagerly awaiting the opportunity to stop in Washington and then catch the next morning's Vermonter, a train that would connect her to her 9-months-pregnant-and-three-days-overdue daughter in New Hampshire, using the station in White River Junction, Vermont.
"I just thought it would be pretty and nice; and I thought if the weather was bad, the planes would be worse," said Strick. "And the station's a five-minute walk from her house."
Since a mid-1990s renovation, Charlottesville travelers have been confined to what was the original train station's baggage room. So about half of the 220 or so passengers had to wait outside.
The Northeast Regional arrived on time from Lynchburg, but boarding so long that it departed 19 minutes behind schedule. (On Tuesday, boarding was slow again, turning a 40-minute late arrival into a 59-minute late departure.)
–an earlier version of this online article placed the White River Junction station in the wrong state
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These are fabulous train, in the snow, photos. I especially like the first one of the train pulling into the station.
Trains and snow? Hawes must have been in hog heaven. Although I suppose that the frigid temperatures would have made the naked lady thing inadvisable .... Just a slight note, having taken the Vermonter one summer to a teaching gig in New Hampshire and gotten off at WRJ, I can tell you that White River Junction is in Vermont, although very close to Hanover and Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Have you ever been to White River Junction, Hawes? I think that it would be your kind of town. It's got a historic train station and museum, attractive Dartmouth co-eds, and snow. Oh, and I think that DW Griffith filmed the climactic scene of "Way Down East" there.


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What examples can you find of these? I want the list to include people who satisfy two criteria: (a) Major political leader = king, president, prime-minister, very senior cabinet minister, mayor of capital, something in this league. (b) Scientist = someone who has actively worked in science (published papers or books) or at the very least had an impressive career in industrial R&D (with technical accomplishments, not just as a bureuacrat).
One example: Chaim Weizmann. Another, less obvious one which makes the cut nevertheless: Yury Luzhkov
EDIT: Adding from answers: Angela Merkel, Tony Tan.


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Alright so I'm having trouble creating this program, basically I need to prompt the user to enter a 1 or 2 if 1, you run a convert from Fahrenheit to celsius, or if the user presses 2, the program runs celsius to fahrenheit. Here's what I have so far:
import java.util.Scanner; public class TemperatureConverter{ public static void main(String[] args){ Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Please press 1 to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius, or 2 to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit"); int choice = console.nextInt(); if (choice == 1){ ftoc(); } else if (choice == 2){ ctof(); } System.out.println("What is the temperature?"); double temperature = console.nextDouble(); System.out.println("Your converted temperature is "); } //converts fahrenheit to celsius public static double ftoc (double degreesF){ double degreesC = 5.0/9.0 * (degreesF - 32); return degreesC; } //converts celsius to fahrenheit public static double ctof (double degreesC){ double degreesF = 9.0/5.0 * (degreesC + 32); return degreesF; } }
I'm having trouble with what I need to do after the user puts a 1 or a 2 idk how I should go about if the user presses 1 then run this method, but if the user presses 2 run this method. It keeps giving me a bunch of errors saying that it's a variable, but I'm not assigning a variable, I'm calling the method to run that. I'm so confused


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American Heart Association Sees Fitness Value in Virtual Games Like Wii Fit Plus
Denise Mann
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May 17, 2010 -- The American Heart Association (AHA) has given its seal of approval to Nintendo's Wii, Wii Fit Plus, and Wii Sports Resort. The AHA's "heart check" logo -- which is normally only seen on healthy foods -- will now appear on these virtual exercise or active game systems. The new partnership will also include a research summit and a $1.5 million donation from Nintendo to the AHA.
While video games tend to get a bad rap when it comes to their role in fostering the obesity epidemic, the advent of virtual exercise games such as Nintendo's Wii changed the playing field by encouraging what experts now call active play. Nintendo has sold 29 million Wii consoles since the system debuted in 2006.
Seventy percent of Americans do not get the recommended amounts of physical activity each week. The AHA-Nintendo partnership aims to help overcome some of the barriers to regular physical activity such as the lack of time to exercise and the lack of enjoyment in fitness. It is designed to "meet people where they are and seek unique opportunities to be successful," explains AHA President Clyde Yancy, MD, the medical director of Baylor University medical center and chief of cardiothoracic transplantation at Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute in Houston.
"It's not about joining a fancy gym or training for a marathon, it's about accumulating physical activity throughout the day," says Timothy Church, MD, PhD, MPH, the director of the Laboratory of Preventive Medicine at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., and the chairman of the AHA's physical activity committee.
Exercise in the Comfort of Your Home
Adults need 150 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity per week. Active play or virtual exercise may be the right fit for "adults who are just beginning and need instruction and those who just don't want to go to the gym," he says. "They can now start in the comfort of own home. This is their personal trainer."
"This is fun. I play with my kids," Church says. "It's always going to be a balance; kids need exercise before school, at school, and after school."
"If these devices get people moving and start to build their physical competency, it's pointing them in the right direction," says Fabio Comana, an exercise physiologist at theAmerican Council on Exercise, a nonprofit group based in San Diego that is aimed at promoting active lifestyles. "It's a start and we will take it."
Developing physical competency and confidence "can be a huge catalyst of change, so it's a good partnership and a good idea," he says. But active play is "not a replacement for a traditional exercise program. It is a complement or a launch pad that will bridge the gap between doing nothing and starting a traditional exercise program."
Sheryl Wilson, a certified personal trainer and owner of Fitnotic, a New York City-based pre- and postnatal fitness company, agrees. "Although using Wii Fit is a healthier choice than sitting on the couch and snacking while staring at the TV, it still doesn't come close to getting up and engaging in real-life activities," she says.
Take Wii Fit Hula Hoop, for example. "Those playing the game swing their bodies around in a circle, sometimes putting themselves into awkward angles [and] not only do they miss out on the fun of actual hula hooping, but they're not provided with the core strengthening and total body workout that real life hula hooping provides."
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I have created World Trade Center Map on Windows Local.Live.com. Hovering over a marker and then clicking on "More info..." takes you to Wired New York page, from which there is a link to corresponding forum thread.
Please provide your comments and/or corrections.
50 Trinity Place where many victims ran inside for shelter from the dust, that fateful day. And a corresponding thread per building...
Nice work
Couldn't find Cordoba Center. Shouldn't it be there somewhere?
That one ^ should be added, now that it's the most notorious unfindable spot downtown.
There's some irony that folks are now fighting to save the somewhat homely but utilitarian 45 Park Place -- but there was nary a peep back in 2008 when Chang tore down the glory that was 50 Trinity Place (today nothing but a plot of rubble surrounded by a nasty fence).
Were there any attempts to preserve parts of the facade for later incorporation into someone else's building??? Did they TRY to save some pieces, to stash them someplace, like the recently uncovered parts of the Collinnade from upstate???
It's a true shame to see so many of the smaller historic buildings in the City get taken out, only to be replaced by bland, unneeded architectural knockoffs, or worse, empty lots. The streetscape gets unfriendly; personality--and the fine details of an evolving, carefully designed street--gets totally lost when a tower replaces it's scale with that of a bunch of small buildings, and one tends to walk faster and feel smaller as you pass. The older, European-scale buildings in Midtown often make one linger, noticing more about the style of the place and it's setting among the larger streetscape than the goods in the shopwindows.
I really thought that NY developers had evolved and were respecting the past, but no, the 2010 mantra is "...everything old must go to make room for the new".
The cast iron columns are not that difficult to dismantle (if some TLC is used) for future use (the pieces are bolted together). The upper stone facade could be something of a different story, depending upon how it was put together and the condition it's in. CB1 landmark committee put in their response to the Landmarking review that the facade be saved (although they voted against protecting it via LPC designation).
Perhaps the history lovers who don't want Cordoba House to be built will create a fund to purchase the facade. I hear the current owner is trying to raise some money.


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Sandy Presant, chairman of the global real estate fund practice group with the law firm Greenberg Traurig, joined REIT.com for a video interview at REITWise 2013: NAREIT's Law, Accounting and Finance Conference in La Quinta, Calif.
Greenberg Traurig has maintained a REIT industry practice since the early 1980s. The firm advises on tax and securities matters associated with forming and operating a REIT.
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"It's a good deal for the taxpayer to be able to sign on the bottom line when you have lots of assets in front of you. You really don't have the financial risk," he said. "The IRS is starting to close that down, or at least considering closing that down. The problem is commerce in real estate is so important now, when you have the economy in the situation that it's in. Anything the government can do to promote that commerce should be adopted, and anything they can do to that could chill that commerce, must be left alone – and they're not leaving it alone. That's a real problem."


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DOVER — The New Hampshire Attorney General's office is asking a judge to give prosecutors until the end of February to present their case against murder suspect Seth Mazzaglia before a grand jury.
Prosecutors are asking for an extension of the time by which they must bring an indictment against Seth Mazzaglia, the 30-year-old Dover man accused of strangling or suffocating Elizabeth Marriott inside his apartment earlier this year.
Administrative rules in place in the superior court system since 2004 stipulate that judges must dismiss pending charges against a defendant if no indictment is brought within 90 days of an arrest. Currently, that date falls in January 2013.
In a motion filed Dec. 14 in Strafford County Superior Court, Assistant Attorney General Peter Hinckley wrote that the state requires additional time to interview witnesses and finish "certain investigative steps" in connection with the case. Doing so will grant prosecutors the ability to present the grand jury with the "most complete picture possible," Hinckley wrote.
"In particular, the State notes that witness interviews, and further investigative leads deriving therefrom, are actively occurring," the motion states. "So too are forensic testings pertaining to a variety of matters, which it is believed will provide additional pertinent information."
The state is also seeking additional time in order to assess which charges are appropriate to bring against Mazzaglia during the grand jury proceeding, according to the motion.
Mazzaglia's attorney has been notified of the state's intent to seek additional time for the indictment and has taken no position, according to the attorney general's office.
Mazzaglia, now 30, has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with Marriott's death. He has been incarcerated since his arrest in October.
Marriott, a 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student, was last seen on Tuesday, Oct. 9, and is presumed dead. Prosecutors allege Marriott was either strangled or suffocated by Mazzaglia inside his apartment on Mill Street in Dover the night she went missing.
For weeks, authorities conducted an intensive search around the area of Peirce Island in Portsmouth hoping to find Marriott's body. They had strong leads that her remains were in that area, but never recovered her body.
The first new development in the case in the last several weeks came on Monday, Dec. 24, when police arrested a second person in connection with Marriott's death.
Portsmouth resident Kathryn "Kat" McDonough, 19, is accused of lying to police about her whereabouts and interaction with Marriott on the night Marriott went missing.
McDonough was arraigned Wednesday and ordered held on $35,000 cash bail or corporate surety.
McDonough has been in custody since her arrest Christmas Eve, and is due in Portsmouth District Court Wednesday for a hearing on charges of conspiracy and hindering apprehension, according to The Associated Press. McDonough and her lawyer haven't decided whether to waive the hearing, the AP reported Thursday.
McDonough, a Portsmouth resident, was engaged in a romantic relationship with Mazzaglia before Marriott's disappearance, prosecutors confirmed this week.
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Change is an inevitable part of life the challenges many young adults. Understanding and accepting change are key components in career and future planning. In this lesson, students explore the theme of change through allegory and poetry by reading an example of literary allegory and creating their own pictorial allegories. Students first define allegory and complete a pictorial allegoryor "me tree"that displays phrases describing their interests, trails, and dreams on outlines of their hands. Next, they read and discuss a text, such as Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree or Sandy Stryker's Tonia the Tree that addresses change, and then review basic literary concepts as they complete a literary elements map and plot diagram. Finally, students further explore change, and what it means to them, as they write diamante poems related to the theme of change.
Diamante Poems: Using this online tool, students read about and see examples of diamante poems and then create and print poems of their own.
Literary Elements Mapping: This online tool can be used by students to create a character map, conflict map, resolution map, or setting map, for stories they are reading or writing.
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In her book Risking Intensity: Reading and Writing Poetry with High School Students, Judith Rowe Michaels writes that "poems...create a sense of community" (4). The act of sharing poetry widens that sense of community within a classroom and can help students recognize commonality among people from different groups.
The author also reflects that, "Reading and writing poems can help us discover profound truths we didn't realize we knew . . . so we really begin to see a new world" (3). By reading and writing poems therefore, students can gain a better understanding of the idea of change. After reading a poem that focuses on change, and then creating their own poems on the same theme, students further explore theme, structure, and poetic forms.
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One of the world's finest mineral specimens, the Newmont Azurite was discovered in 1952 and used by a miner to pay his bar tab. The Newmont Azurite is known for the large size and perfection of its crystals. Dark crystals stand on tan calcite, perfectly formed and unblemished.
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VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican struck back Friday at a U.N. human rights committee that issued a scathing report on sex abuse by priests, accusing it of straying beyond its mandate and discrediting the U.N. as a whole by adopting the "prejudiced" positions of anti-Catholic advocacy groups.
The Vatican said the U.N. committee had ignored both the Holy See's unique status and its efforts to address the abuse crisis in recent years, noting that it had provided this information to the committee in writing and in person. It blasted what it called the "absolutely anomalous" publicity the committee gave its report and promised a full response at a later date.
The Geneva-based committee on Wednesday accused the Vatican of systematically placing its own interests over those of victims by enabling priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children through its own policies and code of silence.
It recommended the Vatican immediately remove any priest suspected or known to have abused children, open its archives on abusers and the bishops who covered up for them, and turn the cases over to law enforcement.
The Vatican was taken completely off-guard by the severity of the report and, slow to respond, issued a series of increasingly critical and articulated responses that culminated with Friday's lengthy statement by the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, on Vatican Radio.
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Specifically, he accused the committee of giving more credence to the positions of "well-known NGOs, prejudiced against the Catholic Church and the Holy See" than the Vatican itself. In ignoring the Vatican's own explanations and data, he said, it appeared the committee had written the report before the Vatican made its case at a daylong hearing last month.
The report was issued by an 18-member panel of independent U.N. experts who monitor implementation of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which among other things calls for signatories to protect children from harm and ensure that their basic rights to education and health care are guaranteed.
The areas of the committee's report that most piqued the Holy See were those concerning girls' access to reproductive health care and the need to protect gay children and children in same-sex households from being discriminated against. Those issues are key parts of the treaty, but they also touch on core doctrinal teachings of the Catholic Church.
It was natural that the Vatican would object that its religious freedom was being trampled on when the committee recommended it consider amending its own canon law to allow abortion in some limited cases. The committee cited the case of a 9-year-old Brazilian girl who was raped and impregnated by her stepfather and doctors determined an abortion was necessary to save her life. The girl and her doctors were promptly excommunicated.
The committee also urged the Holy See to ensure that sex education, including access to information about contraception and preventing HIV, is mandatory in Catholic schools. And it called for the Holy See to use its moral authority to condemn discrimination against homosexual children, or children raised by same-sex couples.
In his statement Friday, Lombardi said by entering into such matters, the committee "appears to have gone beyond its competence and interfered in the moral and doctrinal positions of the Catholic Church."
He said while it was wrong to blame the United Nations as a whole for the committee's "grave shortcomings," the organization itself "bears the negative consequences of what was done by one of its committees, beyond its competence."
Despite the Vatican's objections, he said the Holy See was nevertheless committed to working for the good of all children via the U.N. treaty.


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So, as it turns out, this cute little bunny hat that I made for Olivia back around Easter time also doubles as a super easy Halloween costume.
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We took some fruit snacks with us to the Trunk-or-Treat at our church Friday evening and Olivia loved handing them out to all the bigger kids. I was delightfully surprised at how interested she was in sharing.
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The band Phish is playing near my office for the next three nights and I'm not going to lie I'm kind of tempted to go see them. In my hometown during the summer there wasn't much to do so you would pretty much go to any concert at the local outdoor arena. And when I say go I mean you would get to the parking lot 4 hours before the show, drink and smoke till you could barely walk and then hop the fence into the concert. You know what it's like to be the only guy in a sea of hippies wearing a Megadeth t-shirt? Me neither but according to some old photos my friends took at the shows I was that guy.
The Cure and Linkin Park park all on one CD!? Tell me their songs are also remixes and I'm going to punch someone in the face from excitement. They are?! I can be speaking only of the "Underworld: Awakening" soundtrack, who's track listing of hot lix has been released. Lacuna Coil and Evanescence too? You shut your god damn mouth.
When I'm looking for the straight dope on a topic I always look to Charlize Theron. She's no nonsense and up until about 2 weeks ago when I heard her speak for the first time I thought she was adorable. So when she says that she thinks "Mad Max: Fury Road" is neither a prequel or a sequel to the much loved post apocalyptic road warrior series, I think I believe her. She also thinks the lead role is still being played by Tom Hardy. She's not positive though. I don't want to sound sexist but she should probably stop talking and just look pretty.
I have no idea what the hell TomCat Films is but they released a trailer for their new film "Panman" and I think I might be smitten. It's a movie about a demon chef who kills people and the best part is he does all this while wearing a pot on his head. It's a hoot. Check out the trailer and dig into the new poster for the film. Get it... dig in... like you would food. I'm awesome.
I'm not going to bother telling you the plot of Syfy's new film "Arachnoquake". I'm just going to tell you it stars Edward Furlong and Tracey Gold. If you've forgotten, Tracey Gold was the nerdy sister on "Growing Pains" who was arrested for driving drunk with her husband and their 3 kids in the car. Edward Furlong, well he was in the "Night Of the Demons" remake recently and was once arrested twice in the same day for driving without a license and being drunk behind the wheel. What I'm saying is this is going to be the greatest wrap party ever.
Big brother is watching my friends. And he's also tweeting and posting on facebook while he's at it. According to a recent report it appears that there's a gaggle of Homeland Security agents who spend their days making fake twitter and facebook accounts to follow suspected criminals. What's better is they've also discovered some of the hot words and phrases that will trigger your account to be followed. Strangely enough "I'm going to blow up the nearest landmark" is not on the list.
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Alfred Hitchcock's final film was adapted from Victor Canning's novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt) to trace the whereabouts of her nephew, who'd been given up for adoption years earlier and who is now heir to a fortune.
Blanche's cohort is investigator Lumley (Bruce Dern), who is fully prepared to milk the last dollar out of Julia before locating the long-lost nephew. Meanwhile, we are introduced to elegant kidnappers Adamson and Fran (William Devane and Karen Black). The fates of the two couples are inextricably intertwined by the search for the missing heir.
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Guatemala Todos Santos Horse Race Video Part 1
Indigenous Maya men in traditional costumes celebrate All Saints Day (Todos Santos) in the race made famous by National Geographic, that left out the best parts which are herein included.
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Guatemala Todos Santos horse race is held in Todos Santos Cuchumatanes located in the department of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, high up in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes (about 8,000 ft elevation).The population is indigenous Maya. More than 90% still speak the Mam Language and the majority also speak Spanish.
The annual name day festival "Todos Santos" (Spanish) All Saints' Day (English, also called All Hallows Day; and the preceding evening (Halloween) the "Eve of All Saints".The Festival is celebrated on October 31 and November 1, and includes traditional dances, marimba music and the well known and highly publicized traditional horse race called "Skach Koyl". On November 2, the "Day of the Dead" everybody goes to the cemetery to visit their departed relatives.
The "Skach Koyl" Race is not quite the quaint picturesque event represented by "National Geographic", but it is definitely worth a trip if you are interested. While most of the "todosanteros" as the locals are called, wear traditional costumes daily, during the festival everybody is wearing their Sunday Best and the competitors in their finery outdo each other.
The night before the race "All Hollows Eve" Todo Santos is alive with Marimbas, parties and a lot of drinking. The following day the race begins. The race is a continuous point to point (about an 1/8 of a mile) and back again race lasting hours. Traditionally the race is a test of "bravery" and "endurance", speed is not important, but riders having a drink (usually Quetzalteca* or beer) every time they get from one point to the other is a requisite. After the first hour most of the riders are drunk and getting drunker. It is not unusual for riders to fall off horses, often being trampled by the other horses and sustaining serious injuries, occasionally a rider is killed.
The winner is chosen by the Elders and the municipal authorities and "he" wins a live cockerel and the title of "El Capitan". How old the tradition is and its origins are questionable, but it has been going on for decades at least. One of the more popular origins of the race often repeated, is that after being conquered by the Spaniards the Maya were not allowed to ride their own horses except for once a year. This story seems rather dubious since the horses came with the "conquistadors" and the Maya were not known to have horse before that.
If you are interested in cultural anthropology, sociology and like adventures a visit to Todos Santos for the Festival might just be your cup of tea.
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Guatemala Department Huehuetenango Municipality Todos Santos Cuchumatanes
Municipality 269 km2 (103.9 sq mi)
Elevation 2,500 m (8,202 ft)
Highest elevation 3,828 m (12,559 ft)
Population (Census 2002)
- Municipality 26,118
- Urban 2,980
- Ethnicities Mam, Ladino
- Religions Roman Catholicism, Evangelicalism, Maya
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adonais wrote:Well I can probably qualify for the "totally random" club....guess I'm split about 5- or 6-ways right now. The ones that I'm still reading with any frequency (I may have dropped a few that were simply too boring ) include another Dawkins, this time "The Exetnded Phenotype" (no poetry in this one, just science stuff.. ); "Suns of God" by Acharya S (that's her pseudonym - what's with people still writing under pseudonyms???), the "Zen Fool" by Ryokan (only poetry I'm reading at the moment!), and "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" by philosopher Daniel Dennett. And now I feel like striking up the philosopher's song, come on every one: "Iiiiiiiiimanuel Kant was a real pi$$ ant who was very rarely stable; Heidegger Heidegger was a boozy beggar...."
Malia wrote:Wow, reading science books for fun? Amazing!
I must admit, I don't generally read science for fun unless the book is written in that "Alan Alda hosing Scientific American Frontiers" kind of way--i.e. written "soft and cushy" for the English major to understand. One scence-type book I had to read for one of my leadership classes is actually super intriguing and it has to do with quantum physics. Basically how new understanding of quantum physics can be applied to leadership in our modern times. It's amazing
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Greenpeace Investigates Heartland Institute Leaked Documents
More context can be read in our blog launching this investigation: Heartland Institute Sting Operation Triggers Greenpeace Investigations.
due to climate change denial campaigns:
- General Motors -- LA Times
- Diageo -- the Guardian
- Pepsi, BB&T and Eli Lilly -- Forecast the Facts
Heartland's entire Finance, Insurance and Real Estate program (now the R Street Institute), including:
- State Farm -- see their Facebook announcement
- The Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR) -- see CEO Brad Kading's letter to Heartland President Joseph Bast
- Allied World Assurance, USAA, XL Group and Renaissance Reinsurance -- Forecast the Facts
- RenaissanceRe's Robert Lamendola resigned from Heartland's board of directors -- E&E News ClimateWire
Farmer's Insurance and Nationwide Insurance have also confirmed (E&E News ClimateWire) they will not support the Heartland Institute. Microsoft has stated that "the Heartland Institute's position on climate change is diametrically opposed to Microsoft's position. And we completely disagree with the group's inflammatory and distasteful advertising campaign."
The urgency of the global warming crisis has never been greater. Even as Republican presidential candidates vie for the greatest policy flip flopper or denier of global warming, the planet is experiencing weather extremes at a staggering pace. The summer of 2011 set multiple U.S. heat records and thousands of monthly temperature, rainfall, drought, flooding and wildfire records were set in 2011. This reality has not stopped the Heartland Institute from politicizing and denying the science of climate change and muddying the policy process to address the crisis.
Internal documents published on DeSmogBlog prompted multiple Greenpeace investigations into the Heartland Institute's influence on our government, our universities, and our public opinion and what implications they have on our ability to stop global warming. Our investigations in response to leaked Heartland documents are cataloged below.
For more, see our multiple investigations below as well as the Heartland Institute and Joseph Bast PolluterWatch profiles.
Heartland Institute Investigations blogroll: (back to top)
Heartland Institute Sting Operation Triggers Greenpeace Investigations (3/12/2012)
Heartland Institute Scandals Convince Columnist of Climate Change Reality (3/14/2012)
How the Heartland Institute Deceived Me with Underhand Tactics (3/15/2012)
Heartland Institute and ALEC Partner to Pollute Classroom Science (3/30/2012)
GM Drops Heartland, Coke and Pepsi drop ALEC (4/5/2012)
Climate Denial University? The Heartland Institute's Toxic Presence in Higher Education (4/12/2012)
Heartland Institute Compares Climate Advocates to Mass Murderers (5/5/2012)
More corporate funders drop Heartland Institute, yet some major names remain (5/15/2012)
Jump to investigation:
Updated 10/22/2012
INVESTIGATION #1: JOSEPH BAST'S CLIMATE CHANGE PHILOSOPHY FLIP FLOP (back to top)
Mr. Bast gave a bizarre interview in E&E News' ClimateWire wherein he predicted that the climate crisis would be "old news" within five to ten years. But Bast can't seem to keep his story straight on the science in two interviews from one day to the next:
From a Wall Street Journal video interview the day before (Feb. 22, 2012):
WSJ: What is the Heartland Institute's position on global warming? [emphasis added]
Bast: "We believe that climate has warmed in the second half of the 20th Century, we believe that there is probably a measurable human impact on climate but it's probably very small, we think that natural forces probably overwhelm any impact that human activity can have, that computer models are too unreliable to forecast what the future might hold for climate and finally that a modest amount of warming is probably going to be, on net, beneficial both to human beings and the ecosystem. We think that that's pretty much actually the consensus of working scientists in this area."
Fact check: Actual scientific consensus on global warming (from real scientists that research and publish scrutinized reports) is getting stronger.
Compare Bast's recognition of a "measurable human impact" with another interview one day later from E&E News' ClimateWire:
As president of the Heartland Institute, Bast has established a no-surrender strategy to challenge the scientific accord that humans are causing a rise in temperatures. He is a bearded Midwesterner with strong suspicions that a small group of politically connected climate scientists are influencing their community's behavior. The result, he thinks, is an outsized, but shrinking, agreement that man's activity is altering the climate.
"I'm confident that the scientific basis behind the threat has pretty much melted away. So I talk about the global warming ... delusion and how it's gradually unwinding," "It's like any other apocalyptic movement. These things crest, and then they start to retreat, until the next apocalyptic movement comes along and gives us something to get all worried about."
In the same E&E ClimateWire interview, Bast criticized the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) as climate science capitulators who committed what he called "pre-emptive surrender" for admitting there is serious man made warming and engaging the policy arena. "You don't concede the science," Bast said of AEI's stance. Ironically, Bast conceded seven months earlier that Heartland's position doesn't match broad scientific consensus. In an interview with the scientific journal Nature, Bast explained, "We've won the public opinion debate, and we've won the political debate as well. But the scientific debate is a source of enormous frustration."
Why is this important? Because Heartland has spent the last decade pushing mythology about climate science, working to bend the public opinion needle back, attacking Al Gore and legitimate climate scientists including Peter Gleick and Michael Mann. The more any given scientist tries to bring their work out of the journals and into public warnings about real world impacts, the more they find themselves in Heartland's crosshairs. Bast is very consistent with his inconsistencies on climate science, a clear indicator
PolluterWatch has aggregated Joseph Bast quotes demonstrating his shocking, inconsistent or blatantly incorrect statements.
INVESTIGATION #2: HEARTLAND INSTITUTE PAYMENTS TO FEDERAL SCIENTISTS AND CAREER CLIMATE DENIERS (back to top)
Last month, Greenpeace sent letters (linked below) of inquiry to the U.S. Departments of Energy and the Interior where individuals are receiving monthly checks from Heartland for services rendered. The Heartland Budget document details $300,000/year in payments to climate denier scientists such as Fred Singer, Craig Idso, Bob Carter and Willie Soon to confront the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and write contrarian critiques of published peer-reviewed climate science:
One of the scientists on the Heartland ledger is Indur Goklany, who is listed as working at the US Department of the Interior (DOI). We sent a letter to the DOI questioning Heartland's payments to Indur Goklany. Triggered by our letter, Representative Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona called for a congressional hearing on Goklany's financial ties to Heartland. After House Natural Resources committee chairman Doc Hastings denied Rep. Grijalva's request, Grijalva succeeded in initiating an investigation over this potential conflict of interest through DOI's Inspector General.
Talking Points Memo confirmed that "The Interior Department is "reviewing" whether a government climate change expert held over from the Bush administration received improper payments from an institution known for its opposition to environmental regulation, a spokesman tells TPM."
Unfortunately we only have confirmation of 2012 payments on Heartland's books. We don't know how far back these payments go nor the total that Goklany or others have received from Heartland through the years.
See Greenpeace's letter to the Department of Energy
See Greenpeace's letter to the Department of the Interior
INVESTIGATION #3: PAYMENTS TO UNIVERSITY FACULTY FOR "CLIMATE CHANGE RECONSIDERED" ANTI-SCIENCE REPORTS (back to top)
Following the leak of internal Heartland Institute documents, six universities with faculty listed in Heartland's budget for work relating to denying the science or implications of global climate change received letters from Greenpeace asking for conflict of interest investigations (see the Chronicle of Higher Education's coverage). Of those six, four have made some movement that open up a variety of unanswered questions:
- Harvard University has again distanced itself from Willie Soon in response to our letter. Harvard says Soon is not affiliated with the school although he remains in their faculty directory. Harvard told Greenpeace last year that Soon only used their campus for his office after Soon described himself as a "natural scientist at Harvard" a byline that morphed to exclude the Harvard affiliation after Greenpeace inquiry. See Greenpeace's letter to Harvard.
- Arizona State University's State Press paper wrote an article about Greenpeace's letter asking the ASU administration to investigate a potential conflict of interest between Robert Balling and Heartland's climate denial reports. ASU separately told Greenpeace and the State Press that it was investigating. Balling has a history of payments from fossil fuel interests including climate studies funded by Exxon (see Balling's 2010 CV). Balling also co-wrote two books with Pat Michaels of the Cato Institute that contort the science and dismiss the seriousness of global warming (Michaels has admitted that up to 40% of his funding comes from the oil industry). There remains a major inconsistency: despite being listed in Heartland's 2012 budget and as an "expert" on their website, Balling claims no affiliation with Heartland since 2008 (see State Press article above). See Greenpeace's letter to ASU.
- Michigan Technological University pushed back hard at any association between professor David Watkins and the Heartland Institute. Watkins stressed that "I have had no relationship with the Heartland Institute, and I do not support their agenda," and, "I have not accepted (nor have I been offered) any funds from them, and I am troubled by the misuse of my name in their documents" (Michigan Tech news). The Heartland Institute has still not provided an explanation as to why Prof. Watkins is listed in their budget as a contributor to their reports that promote doubt over climate change. See Greenpeace's letter to MTU.
- Professor Anthony Lupo at the University of Missouri (MU) has confirmed $750 monthly payments from Heartland and has worked with another recipient of significant Heartland payments for climate doubt work, Craig Idso (Columbia Tribune). Prof. Lupo still won't recognize the key role human greenhouse gas emissions play in driving climate change despite his role as a certified consultant for the American Meteorological Society (see AMS' position statement on global warming conflicting with Prof. Lupo's claims) and the majority opinion of scientific bodies worldwide. In stark contrast to the vast majority of the scientific community studying climate change, Anthony Lupo has worked with energy industry lobbyists and career climate science deniers (such as the Natural Resources Stewardship Project) to urge the United Nations to ignore global warming. Anthony Lupo's public statements on climate change have been self-contradictory over the years, as documented by the Kansas City Pitch. Prof. Lupo's connection to Heartland recently convinced a Columbia Tribune columnist of both manmade global warming and the public relations campaign to deny its existence. See Greenpeace's letter to the University of Missouri and MU's response letter, including Prof. Lupo's outside interest disclosure forms.
- UPDATE: see Greenpeace's response to Mizzou, expressing concern over Prof. Lupo's contracted climate work for Heartland being "beyond his scientific qualifications," and asking how Mizzou "ensures that its Global Climate Change Group is not inhibited by political bias when conducting and promoting academic research on global climate change." Mizzou has not responded to Greenpeace (10/22/2012).
- For more information: DeSmogBlog - Anthony Lupo.
Canadian schools Greenpeace wrote to have not responded, but are mentioned in this article by the Muse. Another school, Carleton University,
recently audited and discovered was recently subject to an audit discovering significant classroom bias against sound climate science in the case of Tom Harris, also affiliated with Heartland (see the Guardian).
- The University of Victoria (Canada) has not contacted Greenpeace over conflict of interest questions relating to Heartland's payments to adjunct professor Susan Crockford, who has a history of denying climate science as a speaker for the International Climate Science Coalition (which does not have a scientifically accurate position). The UVic administration has stated that Crockford's position as an adjunct professor does not require her to file disclosures of outside interest payments. Heartland is paying Susan Crockford $750/month for work on Heartland's Climate Change Reconsidered reports. Crockford's actual expertise is in the evolutionary theory of the domestic dog. See Greenpeace's letter to the University of Victoria and coverage in the Martlet, a weekly student paper at UVic.
- Lakehead University has also not responded to Greenpeace after conflict of interest concerns about contract lecturer Mitch Taylor's listing in the Heartland Institute 2012 budget as a contributor to NIPCC reports. According to Canadian newspapers, Taylor's research on polar bears is not considered credible by the scientific community, and Taylor has confirmed funding from the Heartland Institute but denies any present payments. See Greenpeace's letter to Lakehead University.
Unanswered questions among all these inquiries could indicate tense internal politics at Heartland if they were making up names in their budget for the sake of impressing the board, making plans look finalized for fundraising purposes, or given inaccurate information from major contractors like Craig Idso.
INVESTIGATION #4: THE GLOBAL WARMING CURRICULUM PROJECT (back to top)
Greenpeace sent a letter to the Department of Energy (DOE) about a part time employee there who is also on Heartland's 2012 books to write K-12 curriculum on a contrarian view of the climate science consensus:
In the Heartland fundraising plan states that the Anonymous Donor Barre Seid has pledged $100,000 for this project (100% of its committed financing) as it laments that "Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective." To fight this, they hope to develop curriculum "modules" to insert doubt into climate science lessons:
In the recent Wall Street Journal interview however, Bast manages to reframe the K-12 climate curriculum project completely.
WSJ: What about the program for schools?
Bast: "What we want to do is bring real research and real science into the classroom. Teach kids about critical thinking, let them understand that to try to find the human fingerprint on climate is a big challenge."
We would love to see Mr. Bast answer some tough questions on global warming science and policy in front of a class at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, outside of Washington DC in Virginia, one of the top science high schools in the country.


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Friday, October 31, 2008
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Big Deal.
All that aside, I love this article that resonates with my personal religious beliefs on the divine institution of marriage. I do not want my children to grow up in a genderless society. It's been interesting to watch the silent majority of people wake from their former political apathy and get involved in this literally society-altering issue.
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Surprise! We're cool parents.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Go Ahead, Wish Upon a Star
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
Modern Fairytales.
Yesterday. Me. Marc. Yoga class. Together. Him staying past the 15 minutes I implored him to stay for. (Suffered through entire class, VOLUNTARILY, I swear.) This is why I love McStiffasaboard. Big points.
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Friday, October 3, 2008
A Reconciliation of Sorts...
I had to break up with my boyfriend last month. Mr. Net (first name, Inter). The McHusband was feeling neglected (he was). Blogging was a drag (not anymore). So I opted to spend more time with McSciFi in front of the TV (instead of blogging) and even suffered through Eureka just to sit by his side on the couch (Eureka not so bad, really).
With my fate as as a Fantasy Basketball Widow secured in the immediate future, I'm back in action. I've missed you.
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